Casual Friday.
Denims and no ties in sight.
Sweats? Flip flops? Midriffs?*
* How casual is too casual? Rachel Zupek from CareerBuilder writes about it here.
I once worked at a company where everyone — and I mean everyone — avoided the IT department.
The IT people were incredibly hard to work with, had a major attitude problem and generally said “no” to every reasonable request (at least it certainly felt that way).
Sound familiar?
Now, before one of my IT friends sends me [...]
Ruminations on an agency “prenuptial agreement” with its clients…
As your agency, we have one, primary goal: to help you make money by doing what we do best.
So love us for our brains, not just our big paint brushes.
We aim for results — “killer” creative and awards are merely a by-product.
As happy as we are to [...]
In Bhutan, former king Wangchuck coined the term Gross National Happiness (GNH) to replace the more commonly used Gross Domestic Product (GDP) (you learn these things when you read the Sunday NY Times). They’ve posted it to the walls of national schools.
Certainly, high GDP can lead to wealth and well-being, which might support GNH.
Emphasis [...]
Food on the table.
Clothing. Shelter. Happiness?
Stats say: not so much.*
* According to salary.com 4th Annual Survey of Job Satisfaction:
“The most interesting result from the 2008 survey was the evidence that employers were out of touch with their employees’ satisfaction levels and were overestimating the tough economic environment as a deterrent to job seeking,” said Nicholas [...]